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What's a Wreck?

A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

While the wording mishaps are unfortunate, most of the cakes look fairly appetizing. Not so #3. There is a lot of bad going on there. And was the decorator chewing on a hamburger with his or her mouth open while leaning over the cake? That dark matter in the center looks horrible.

The wreckiest thing about #3? Riderless carrots. But even mohawk babies could not save it.

I can maybe see just forgetting what I've written and absentmindedly writing the same thing twice, but I think I'd notice eventually, especially if I had to go over the letters again in black, as in the first cake!!!

"Happy Birthday Sprinkles" is pretty funny, but the irony of the "I Want Sprinkles" with NO sprinkles is a clear winner. At least most of them have nice handwriting. I'm a little suspicious that someone took a reasonable cake from a store, and wrote the 3rd and 4th inscriptions themselves. Either that, or the decorator was out, and the janitor did the inscriptions (no offense to janitors with impeccable piping skills intended).

I wanna party with Sprinkles too! We can all gather around and sing Sharyn's song to her. I'm SURE she would love it since her special day usually isn't celebrated. The 3rd one just looks nasty. Blech....

Being nicknamed "Sprinkles" for my birthday would open up a world of celebration possibilities with my besties. And two of us will be celebrating our birthdays (which are 3 days apart) at her daughter's wedding in September. Hmmmmmm. . . . . We'd better start planning!

Naming a cat Sprinkles would be asking for it, if he is an unsnipped tom. As a kid we had one, and he sure wasn't getting any slice of cake for his birthday. Though he did eventually get a cone - around his neck. He shredded all the furniture on revenge. Not one of our better cats, and our last male.

#5: That is breakfast cake, eaten in the morning when we celebrate Day's birth.

#6: But, there doesn't appear to be a comma...they are Happy Birthday sprinkles, as opposed to Ho-hum Wednesday sprinkles. No one is speaking to Sprinkles (I don't blame them either. She's such a diva. I hear she didn't even show up for her last gig).

Growing up with and learning to spell the name "Brittany" resulted in quite a few near misses in terms of almost writing "birthday," so it's not as impossible of a mistake as you would think. Granted, I was in elementary school at the time. :)

When I was working at the grocery store chain that starts with an 'A' while in college, a bunch of us made up stripper names and put them on the back of our name tags...mine was Sprinkles - I thank you for the cake! LOL

And now I shall go drink more coffee in the hopes the caffeine will make me forget the stupidity of these peoples! =D

I just came looking for have a cake made for my son's cub scout ceremony. the store bakeries are not allowed to do any free hand decorating. They can only do deco that is approved by corporate. I blame Cake Wrecks... you have corporate shaking that someone is going to screw up. LOL!!

I don't care, I would eat the "Happy Birthday Day" cake since it looks like a scrumptious carrot cake (and with coconut, too!) Plus, given the message, I would know to expect to get a "Happy Birthday Night" cake that evening, as well, maybe in red velvet or midnight chocolate or something appropriate to go along with evening attire.

Oh man lol. Now once I can see screwing up but wow. Still I would eat the cakes. Especially the one with all the yummy sprinkles. Unless of course they broke my teeth then I might possibly get a bit upset lol. Cannot fathom for the life of me if these wreckerators just drank too much coffee or can't understand the order.

I had a great-aunt Day, so it's possible 'Happy Birthday Day' is correct, though on the evidence of this post the odds are heavily stacked against this. However, does anyone else think the greenery on that cake looks suspiciously like real plant matter?

This is probably my favorite post. I feel for them, though. Sometimes when I'm typing Happy Birthday to my friends I almost type Happy Brittany. It's a pretty great name, so I can see why it sneaks in there so well! :D